..Strategies that enhance communication and endorse support for defined roles of primary care pediatricians and child and adolescent psychiatrists will ensure that children with mental health needs are treated safely and appropriately...

Factors associated with identification and management of maternal depression by pediatricians

..Risk factors include overweight, male sex, and Hispanic ethnicity. Although sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) has been implicated as a risk factor for MetS in adults, its association with SDB in adolescents is unknown...

..Current residents with training in adult mental techniques reported fewer barriers to the care of maternal depression. However, in spite of residency reforms, 81% of current residents reported no training in adult mental health issues...

Barriers to the identification and management of psychosocial issues in children and maternal depression

..Child psychosocial issues and maternal depression are underidentified and undertreated, but we know surprisingly little about the barriers to identification and treatment of these problems by primary care pediatricians...

Do pediatricians think they are responsible for identification and management of child mental health problems? Results of the AAP periodic survey

..These results confirm a high prevalence of short sleep among suburban high school students and provide additional support suggesting significant association between short sleeping hours and overweight...

Sleep estimation using wrist actigraphy in adolescents with and without sleep disordered breathing: a comparison of three data modes

..This analysis investigated which actigraphy data mode is optimal for data collection in adolescents and explored the level of agreement between actigraphy and polysomnography (PSG) in population subgroups...

..Low socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with a range of health outcomes. Our objective was to study the relationship between residence in a neighborhood of severe socioeconomic disadvantage and childhood obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)...

..Urinary albumin excretion is a surrogate for endothelial dysfunction and a potent cardiovascular disease risk predictor. We sought to determine whether urinary albumin excretion is increased in subjects with OSA...

Prenatal and neonatal risk factors for sleep disordered breathing in school-aged children born preterm

..Extremes of sleep duration have been associated with adverse health outcomes. The mechanism is unclear but may be related to increased inflammation. We sought to assess the association between sleep duration and inflammatory biomarkers...

..Study design Former preterm children (n=251) were identified from a birth cohort. Examinations, including lung function testing, were performed at ages 8 to 11 years. Perinatal exposures were ascertained from neonatal medical records...

Relationship of sleep parameters, child psychological functioning, and parenting stress to obesity status among preadolescent children

..Previous research has been based on large survey studies with consideration of demographics and lifestyle factors (e.g., snacking and TV watching) but not of child psychological/behavioral functioning and parenting factors...

Differences in polysomnography predictors for hypertension and impaired glucose tolerance

..We sought to develop a measure of pediatricians' attitudes about managing maternal depression and to identify characteristics associated with pediatricians' attitudes about managing maternal depression...